If the comparison were not offensive to the sun-god, we might say that he [the Sun] is like the spider at the centre of his web. In the net of his attraction the worlds are sustained. Relatively to his magnitude and might, the planets are but toys turning round him.


Translated by John Ellard Gore, Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens, Book III, Chapter I (p. 208)

Camille Flammarion Quotes

If the comparison were not offensive to the sun-god, we might say that he [the Sun] is like the spider at the centre of his web. In the net of his...

If the comparison were not offensive to the sun-god, we might say that he [the Sun] is like the spider at the centre of his web. In the net of his...

If the comparison were not offensive to the sun-god, we might say that he [the Sun] is like the spider at the centre of his web. In the net of his...

If the comparison were not offensive to the sun-god, we might say that he [the Sun] is like the spider at the centre of his web. In the net of his...